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Faced With Sea Ice Loss, Emperor Penguins Alter Breeding Tactics
2014-01-09 18:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Yale Environment 360: Confronted with the loss of sea ice in some parts of Antarctica, four colonies of emperor penguins have come up with an innovative breeding strategy to adapt to their changing environment. Using satellite images, an international team of scientists tracked the four colonies from 2008 to 2012. In the first three years, the emperor penguins hatched and incubated eggs in their customary fashion atop the sea ice that freezes during the Antarctic winter and spring. But in 2011 and 2012, sea ice did...
It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Penguins on a Southwest Jet
2013-07-02 00:43:27| Airlines - Topix.net
To start the week off we figured we'd share a little bit of a distraction the form of a new airplane paint job, and this one comes to us from the fun folks over at Southwest Airlines .
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Spy-camera robot penguins infiltrate bird colonies
2013-02-12 19:04:51| CNET News.com
A BBC documentary team unleashed 50 spycams into penguin colonies, including cameras that served as eyes for robotic penguins, to capture stunning close-up footage of the unusual birds. [Read more]
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Antarctic Adelie Penguins Learn To Cope With Climate Change
2013-02-08 22:04:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
RedOrbit: Researchers studying Adélie penguins say that the Antarctic birds are actually coping with climate change, for now. A team set out with a five-year NSF grant to conduct research on how penguin populations cope with climate change, and on how individual birds cope. During the expedition, they wanted to know why some penguins succeed in coping with climate change, while others do not. Researchers say that paying close attention to successfully breeding penguins can offer up clues to scientists...
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